Salt-cellar.



J. G. LANNOYE.

SALT GELLAR.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.10, 1913.

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JOSPH G. LANNOYE, F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ug. 25, 1914.

applicati@ and December iaieia. serial in). scarna.

To all u iiom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH'Gr'. LANNoYn,

a citizen of the United States, residing at .Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful lfmprovement in Salt-Cellars, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use lthe same, reference being had to the aecompanyin drawings, whichform apart of this speci "cation 'llhis invention relatestoshakers for powdered condiment, more particularly of that type known as salt Shakers.

'llhe object of the invention is a cheap and eticient shaker formedof flexible material, such as rubber, whereby salt or other condiment that may become hardened may be broken up by simply kneading theshaker in the hand or rolling it upon a dat surface underpressure of the hand without the necessity of removing the cover.

Another object of the invention resides in the means for securing the cover to the body wherebyit may be quickly removed for filling or readily replaced.

. flfhese objects and novel features of the infvention are hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improv'ed shaker. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a like view illustrating an alternative form of the device. Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings and specification. As may be seen in Fig. 2,'the body 1 is somewhat elongated in form having a rounded end 2 rovided with the perforations 3, through w ich the condiment may be shaken. The opposite end of the body is open and cylindrical in form provided upon the outer surface with an annular shoulder or flange l, which when the parts are assembled is engaged upon the upper sloping face thereof by a similar shoulder 5 on the cap 6. 'llhe cap is formed with an annular channel 7 formed between the portions 8 and 9 of the cap linto which the end of the body is provided to hold the parts in assembled relation. The shaker is preferably formed of rubber f such composition or so treated as to preventoxidizing which would be undesirable in an article of this nature, which composition ortreatment is well known to manufacturers of rubber articles. The rubber' is also of such composition as to be flexible and yield 'under pressure of the hand of the operlator and yet sufficiently stiff as to hold its s ape.

To remove the cap from the body the thumb of the operator may be positioned as shown in Fig. 2, and by a slight pressure exerted upon the rim of the cap, it may be forced upon that edge to the position shown by dotted lines, and the body readily removed therefrom, whereupon it may be filled and the ca replaced. Both the cap and the body are 'ormed of like material and the shoulder l is held in engagement beneath the Ashoulder 5 of the c ap by the wall 8 tending to keep the open end of the body in position against the outer wall of the cap. By this arrangement the body and cap are held from disengagement under the ordinary manipulation of the shaker to break up caked material.

The article may be made of flexible rubber, or other adaptable material, of various` colors as may be desired, and may be lined with a cloth fabric as indicated at 10, in Fig. 3, which, while yieldable, tends to hold the walls in the proper shape and prevents the condiment from contacting the rubber. Although the drawing shows the preferred form of the device, it may be made in various other forms withoutfdeparting from the spirit of this invention.

Having thus brieHy-described my invention and its utility, what l claim and desire to `secure by LettersPatent of the lUnited States isl. As a new article of manufacture, a salt cellar consisting of two separable parts formed of flexible material, one of said parts having a channel whose walls extend each side of the wall of the-other part providing a support therefor.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a salt cellarv consisting of two parts formed of flexible material, one being insertible within the other and provided with an annular flange upon the exteriorthereo'said other 110 part being adapted to engage both the interior and exterior of the first part, and having a iange adapted to engage the said shoulder' to detachably secure the parts together.

3. In a salt cellar, a ilexible rubber body having perforations for the discharge of eondiinent and a filling opening, and a ilexible rubber closure therefor having a channel Whose Walls extend eaeh side of the Wall about the opening providing a support therefor, the tWo parts having corresponding internal and external annular shoulders for detaehably retaining the parts in assembled relation. y

4. A salt Cellar eomprising a hollow7 elongated body of lexible material having a pertorate end, the opposite end being open7 and a closure for said open end formed or' ilexible material and provided With a channel adapted to receive the ond or' the body part and support the sam@ upon both the interior and exterior, and means for releasably hold- -ing the parts in assembled relation.

5. A salt cellar eomprising tivo separable parts formed ot flexible material, one of said parts having perforations for the discharge of eondilnent, and an open end provided With an annular shoulder7 the other of said arts, having an annular channel to receive -Y the end of the other part extending upon each side of the Wall thereof to support said other part, and also having an annular Ilange for engaging the shoulder whereby said parts are releasably held in assembled relation.

6. A salt cellar consisting of tivo separable parts having corresponding internal and external shoulders for holding` the parts in assembled relation, both of said parts being flexible along the line of unition.

7. A salt cellar Consisting of tvvo separable parts, both of said parts being flexible along the line of unition, and one of said parts being adapted to support the other both upon 

